Quotes About Europe

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isn't merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.

We accept that, in one way now, if you are 27, 28 and still playing for Ajax, you are probably not good enough for the top of Europe because players want to go to the top in Europe.

The laws imposed by Brussels damage Italian artisans, traders, pensioners, but hey, Europe is asking, so we have to obey. Come on, if Europe asks me to throw myself in a well, I'm not going to do that just because Europe is asking me to, am I?

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

R&D has been an obsession in Europe for many, many years. There is this magical number which many governments aspire to do, and that is to invest at least three percent of GDP in research and development. When you look at the number, it's a composite of private and public investment in R&D.

Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

It doesn't matter where you live, here or in your beloved Europe; you'll always be imitating them; you'll always be groveling." "If I'm happy, that's all I care about." "You can go now!" shouted Blue. "And know this: People who seek only happiness never find it.

Roman kahramanlarinin karakterlerine, tuhafliklarina, unutulmazliklarina gosterilen asiri ve dengesiz ilgi, Avrupa'dan butun dunyaya, tipki romanin kendisi gibi yayildi.

Europe was already Europe.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

May the new era be an era of liberty and respect for everyone--including writers! Only through liberty and respect for culture can Europe be saved from the cruel days of which Montesquieu spoke in the Esprit des lois: Thus, in the days of fables, after the floods and deluges, there came forth from the soil armed men who exterminated each other. Boook XXXII, Chapter XXIII.

Se volete vincere la guerra, voi non potete distruggere la patria dell'operaio. Non potete distruggere le macchine, le officine, le industrie. Il problema non è soltanto polacco, è europeo. Anche in tutti gli altri paesi d'Europa, da voi occupati, potete distruggere la patria dei nobili, la patria dei borghesi, ma non la patria degli operai.

One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Juans, and rabid equality-mongrels. The old, hardy, indomitable male is gone. His fierce singleness is quenched. The last sparks are dying out in Sardinia and Spain. Nothing left but the herd-proletariat and the herd-equality mongrelism, and the wistful poisonous self-sacrificial cultured soul. How detestable

But also, no more of this new "humanity" which followed the Renaissance. None of this new liberty which was to be so pretty in Europe. Something grimmer, by no means free-and-easy.

Suddenly, out of its stale and drowsy air, the air of slaves, Like lightning Europe le'pt forth, Sombre, superb and terrible.

America means above all toleration, catholicity, welcome, freedom--a concern for Europe, for Asia, for Africa, along with its concern for America. It is something quite peculiar, hardly to be stated--evades you as the air--yet is a fact everywhere preciously present.

On December 27 land was sighted. They had reached France. The men were confined to the ship until New Year's Day but were happy to be the first black unit to reach Europe.

The Pirates Abandon Ship Upon his return from Europe in August 1985, while he was casting about for what to

Se dio cuenta, una vez más, de que Estados Unidos, pese a sus muestras de mal gusto y sus excesos de entusiasmo, le ofrecía libertades que puede que ya no encontrara en Europa.

HOW TO EXPLAIN the striking contrast between Eisenhower's sweepingly successful leadership of the Allied cause in Europe during World War II and his disappointing failure to provide leadership to the cause of civil rights as president?

The great German philosopher Immanuel Kant called him the "new Prometheus" for stealing the fire of heaven. He quickly became not only the most celebrated scientist in America and Europe, but also a popular hero. In solving one of the universe's greatest mysteries, he had conquered one of nature's most terrifying dangers.